This presentation addresses graduate employability related issues for students.

1. Graduate Employability
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2. Overview
 What is graduate employability?
 Why is it so important?
 What do employers look for?
 What are the skills required for graduate
employability?
 What are the opportunities in market
today?
 Conclusion
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5. You are a “Professional”!
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6. What is
GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY?
Why is it so
IMPORTANT?
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7. What is Graduate Employability?
 A set of achievements
 skills
 understandings
 personal attributes
 That makes graduates more likely to gain employment
and be successful in their chosen career
 Which benefits
 themselves
 the workforce
 the community
 the economy
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8. What is Graduate Employability?
 Ability to
 demonstrate
knowledge and understanding in
the field of interest
 apply the knowledge in professional manner
 collect and interpret data in order to formulate
judgments and arrive at decisions
 communicate information, ideas, problems and
solutions to specialist and non-specialist
audiences
 develop learning skills needed for further growth
with a high degree of autonomy
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9. Why Is It So Important?
 Growth of knowledge economies
 Shift from production to service-driven
economies
 Less certainty among employers regarding the
future requirements
 Call for improved forecasting of skills needs
 Move away from the traditional job-for-life
 Trend towards greater civic participation
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10. What Do Employers Look For?
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Acting with integrity
Taking ownership
Communicating
Motivation and resilience
Continuous learning
Building relationships
Problem solving
Delivering quality
Business focus
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11. Personal attributes that contribute to
overall employability
 Loyalty, integrity, reliability, commitment
 Professional attitude
 Ability to deal with pressure
 Motivation, enthusiasm, ownership
 Adaptability
 Proactive and inquisitiveness
 Positive approach, can-do attitude
 Positive self esteem
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12. What are Employability Skills?
 Communication
 Oral, written, listening skills
 Email writing
 Presentation skills
 Meetings and conference calls
 Document writing
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13. What are Employability Skills?
(contd.)
 Self-management
 Time
management
 Work-life balance
 Organized, methodical
 Leadership and working in team
 Large picture and attention to details
 Emotional intelligence
 Out-of-box thinking and problem-solving
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14. What are Employability Skills?
(contd.)
 Technology that contributes to effective
execution of tasks
 Having a range of basic IT skills
 Applying IT as a management tool
 Using IT to organise data
 Willing to learn new IT skills
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15. What are Employability Skills?
(contd.)
 Numeracy
 Use simple statistics
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Calculate percentages
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Exercise: A certain jacket was marked down 20% the
first week and another 20% down the next week. What
percentage of the regular price was the final cost of the
jacket after the two markdowns? (Options: 0.36, 0.4,
0.60, 0.64)
 Multiply and divide accurately
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Read and interpret graphs and tables
Manage a limited budget
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16. What are Employability Skills?
(contd.)
 Judgement/decision making skills
 Planning & organising
 Business awareness
 Enterprise and entrepreneurism
 Hard skills
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Using numbers effectively
Using words effectively
Using technology effectively
Speaking a foreign language
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17. Opportunities in Market
 All industries
 Automobile,
IT / ITES, BFSI, BPO, Pharma,
Healthcare, …
 Types of jobs
 Market
research
 Marketing
 Business development
 Operations
 Human resources
…
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18. Very Important
 Know your passion
 For
the function
 For the role
 For the industry
 Prepare yourself
 By
developing awareness for the industry
 Reading / listening to business news
 Keeping up-to-date with market happenings
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19. Very Important (Contd.)
 Understand the difference between a job and a
career
 Learn to be transformed into a professional
from student life
 Do NOT hop jobs
 Be
open to learning new function / skill / role
 Develop organizational perspective
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20. Conclusion
 Graduate employability skills are very important
– not only for the first placement but also for
growth in career.
 These skills can be developed through
observation, introspection, adaptation,
conscious efforts.
 Opportunities exist in market but with changing
economies and globalization, requirements
have changed.
 So…
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21. Conclusion
Let us prepare ourselves for the
years to come…
TODAY!
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22. THANK YOU
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